The Easiest Way to Promote Health: School Health

The most important source of a country is human resources, not underground resources. If it is believed that the first and most important years of human life passes through the schools; it is understood that the most favorable period for protecting and promoting health is the school period. The purpose of this article is; In today's world where human health is getting worse every day, to draw attention to school health and to give a new perspective to school health by interpreting current data. Families and schools that give individuals a healthy lifestyle also provide an important opportunity to create a healthy society. Protecting the physical, mental and social health of individuals from the school age is the foundation of a happy and healthy society. Healthy school is an organization that is interested in the health of students, teachers, non-teacher staff, and anyone who interacts with the school. School health; is an integrated service that is comprehensive and cannot be carried out only by projects. For this reason, we believe that school health services must be carried out with the support from the primary health care institutions through the school health units to be established in the school and by trained school health officers employed at school are the most important steps that can be taken in the field of school health.